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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The Institute of Human Relations is an unorthodox, pioneering institution. First of its kind in the U. S. it was founded ten years ago by two bright Yale deans, Robert Maynard Hutchins of the Law School (now University of Chicago's president) and Dr. Milton Charles Winternitz of the...
The Rockefeller General Education Board helped by building for the Institute a fine five-story Georgian home and by granting $2,500,000 for ten years' running expenses.* Soon there moved into this structure an odd assortment of men, women and beasts. Famed Child Psychologist Arnold Gesell brought a...
Leader of this motley crew now is broad-beamed Dr. Mark Arthur May, a psychologist, expert on educational movies and onetime theology instructor. Dr. May, who has been with the Institute since 1931 and its director since 1935, found that scientists are individualists, hard to team up, harder still to...
Three years ago Dr. May and colleagues decided that if the study of human relations was to become a science, they should, like other scientists, find a hypothesis to unify their research, test it, eventually reduce it to mathematical formulae. Thereupon they formulated a tentative theory with 14 definitions, eight...
This week the Institute published a summary of that study with considerable evidence to support its theory.** It was written by eight men representing several sciences. Salient conclusions: